Birthday Baking Gifts

  My previous blog post was about my birthday cake – Plum and Coconut Cake with Lemon Syrup, made by Mum. She packaged up the freshly made cake, travelled 3 hours by bus, and hand-delivered it to me. This was very special indeed, and I was also lucky enough to be spoiled with specially baked […]

Home-baked Luggage

  Whose mother travels on the bus with her carry-on luggage bursting with home-baking? Mine does, that’s who. Mum’s carry-on bag contained no less than Plum Cake, Feijoa Muffins, biscuits, lemons to make a Lemon Syrup, and a pot of butter!   Mum stepped off the warm bus and into a bitterly cold wind that […]

Mocha Cake

  Mocha flavour is a combination of chocolate and coffee. This Mocha Cake combines a coffee flavoured cake sandwiched together with two layers of Chocolate Butter Cream, finished with a Chocolate Ganache icing.   This cake is very quick to make: just place all ingredients in a bowl and beat together….and done! The following recipe […]

Chocolate Birthday Cake

 This is the wonderful cake Mum made for my birthday this year.   The recipe is called “Rose’s Chocolate Cake”**       I live two hours away from Mum, so over the phone she had asked me to choose what type of cake I wanted for my birthday this year. It always has to […]